Darkfield’s Flight: an immersive experience that leaves you half dead

In the sylvan surroundings of Dartington Hall, the pioneers of immersive theatre are exploring the many-world interpretation of quantum mechanics, one air crash at a time

Mihaela Bodlovic

By Simon Ings

Flight by Darkfield, along with their works Séance and Coma, Vault Festival, London, from 23 January 2019

THERE’S a shipping container sitting outside the 14th-century Dartington Hall in south Devon, UK, from which theatrical production company Darkfield is offering absurdly cheap flights. How does it do it?

I think it must have something to do with the way the company kills its passengers. Because one thing is for sure: the plane I boarded (mocked up to the high degree of realism pictured above, and magicked from the dark by an immersive, binaural soundtrack once …